Free Air: Poems

By Joe Wenke

Looking for Potholes, Poems; The Talk Show, A Novel; Free Air, Poems; Papal Bull: An Ex-Catholic Calls Out the Catholic Church; You Got To Be Kidding! A Radical Satire of the Bible and Mailer's America.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Joe Wenke
• Release date: Jul 17, 2015
• ISBN: 9780990702207

Joe Wenke

JOE WENKE is a writer, social critic and LGBTQI rights activist. He is the founder and publisher of Trans Über, a publishing company with a focus on promoting LGBTQI rights, free thought and equality for all people. Wenke is the author of The Human Agenda: Conversations about Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity; Looking for Potholes, Poems; The Talk Show, A Novel; Free Air, Poems; Papal Bull: An Ex-Catholic Calls Out the Catholic Church; You Got To Be Kidding! A Radical Satire of the Bible and Mailer's America. Wenke received a B.A. in English from the University of Notre Dame, an M.A. in English from Penn State and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Connecticut.

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A l s o   b y   J o e   W e n k e

The Talk Show, a Novel

n o n f i c t i o n

Papal Bull: An Ex-Catholic Calls Out the Catholic Church

You Got to Be Kidding! A Radical Satire of The Bible

Mailer’s America

The Human Agenda: Conversations about Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (January 2015)

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Stamford, Connecticut 2014

Trans Über LLC

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Copyright © 2014 by Joe Wenke

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for Mark, Ryan, Olivia and Gisele

c o n t e n t s

I Talk When You Talk

I Think Without Thinking

Bone on the Sand

Lament of an Old Man

Self-Diagnosis

The Heater

I Hate Everybody

Nothing’s Free

The Religious Right

Penetralia

The Final Act

Revelation at Pompei

I Like to Lie

Spontaneous Erection

I Used to Drive My Car

What Was I Thinking?

I Feel Guilty

Bright Green Eyes

Immortality

Sustenance

Free Air

Do the Opposite!

Out to Lunch

The End

Sipping Iced Tea on My Patio

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